Three songs performed live at Havering Folk Club last Wednesday with the 12 string guitar. When an Old Cricketer Cricket has been in the news recently, not in a good way, with allegations of match fixing but sometimes any association is enough to prompt a vaguely relevant song or song title. Or sometimes just because of one lyric within a song, it doesn’t matter if anybody else gets it or not. Any excuse to break the agony of having to make a decision as to what to play next! So this is When an Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease written by Roy Harper adapted by Andy Roberts

I do have another version of Old Cricketer online here but that’s played on the six string, I don’t really know which is the best performance from myself, perhaps you would be so kind as to “like”, “favourite” “rate” or whichever is appropriate on any of these videos to give an indication of relative quality, that might then help me choose, thanks. San Francisco This song is San Francisco by Maxime le Forestier, Andy Roberts version with his funny English accent.

Other performances of the same song 1) San Francisco Mazet Not just because I just got back from France but also having met an old friend from the Mazet last week.

Alternative takes:

Mazet Mazet Mazet Mazet

In 2009 I added over 100 videos to the Andy Roberts Music youTube account, in fact the number is 108. These are the six which are currently leading the table of most views, although it should be noted that each video was uploaded at different times during the year.

One More Cup of Coffee – Bob Dylan – Andy Roberts Music 3,592 views 2 months ago

Andy Roberts – Highway Blues – Havering Folk Club 732 views 11 months ago

San Francisco – Andy Roberts song by Maxime le Forestier 662 views 4 months ago

Andy Roberts Dead Skunk Havering Folk Club 531 views 10 months ago

Cajun Music Cajun Food 482 views 9 months ago

The Wreckers Prayer – Andy 438 views 10 months ago

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Last night at Havering Folk Club we were treated to songs and tunes from many different countries, which is not unusual by any means. In the past we've had songs from Russia, New Zealand, Argentina and Scandinavia to name but a few places I can recall. So having finished the evening the week before, I got to kick off proceedings this week and decided to play one intrumental - Andy Roberts Narrow Boats followed by a song in French by Maxime le Forestier from the 1970s which I've played once before: San Francisco The theme of foreign language and world tunes continued with Peter Waters singing some opera songs in Italian, some Spanish guitar tunes from Smolowik gigs and reels from the Orkneys and something from Sweden.

After a week's absence I returned to Havering Folk Club brandishing my yard of japanese plywood with NEW STRINGS which was great.I played two of my own songs, both of which have never been played live before:Mondura DamandWinter in AndaluciaThen I got a chance in the second half to play one more - Maxime le Forestrier's San Francisco